Clarification: Google-News Fact Check story

By Associated Press | April 7, 2017 at 9:18 amUPDATED: April 10, 2017 at 3:43 pm

ADDS MORE INFORMATION ON ORGANIZATIONS THAT HAVE THE PROPER FORMATTING - FILE - This Oct. 20, 2015, file photo, shows a sign outside Google headquarters in Mountain View, Calif. Google will start offering “fact check” tags next to some news stories in search results in the tech industry’s latest effort to combat false and misleading news stories, on Friday, April 7, 2017. People who search for a topic in the regular search engine or the Google News section will see a conclusion such as “mostly true” or “false” next to news stories that had been fact checked by a participating organization, such as PolitiFact and Snopes.com. (AP Photo/Marcio Jose Sanchez, File)

NEW YORK (AP) — In a story April 7, The Associated Press reported that Google has been working with more than 100 news organizations and fact-checking groups, including the AP, the BBC and NPR. The story should have specified that while Google worked with groups that serve as liaisons to those organizations, it did not work with all the individual organizations directly.